Advertising device



I. S. DICKEN.

ADVERTISING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 4, I92o.

UNITED STATES ISHAM S. DICKEN, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

ADVERTISING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 8, 1921.

Application filed September 4, 1920. Serial No. 408,121.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, IsHAM S. DIcKnN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Advertising Devices, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce a movable sign or advertising medium, in which both surfaces of the advertising conveyer will function. In the conventional movable medium of the endless belt type, one side of the belt only may be utilized for advertising purposes. My purpose is 'to so position the conveyer that in itsftravel all of its surfaces will be visible at dilferent periods.

With thel above purpose in view, my invention consists in certain novel features of construction and arrangements of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, pointed out in the claim and illustrated by the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of my device with the room or chamber in which it is positioned shown partially, and

Fig. 2 is a plan View of my device without a showing of the room.

Numeral 3 designates the ceiling and numerals 4 the side walls of the room or chamber in which my device is positioned, numerals 5, 6, and 7 designate three hangers on which the rollers 8, 9, and 10 are rotatively secured; numerals 11, 12, and 13, designate flanges on the rollers 8, 9, and 10. Numerals 14, and 15 designate nuts which hold the' rollers 9 and 10 in position. Nu

meral 16 designates a shaft, secured to the roller 8, so that it rotates when the roller rotates. Numeral 17 designates a conventional electric motor secured to the side wall 4: at 18. Shaft 16 is directly connected to the motor 17. Numeral 19 designates an endless belt or conveyer on which are positioned the advertising spaces 20. The belt 19 is crossed at 21 so that in the rotation of the belt both sides of the belt will become externally visible at regular time intervals when the belt is rotated on the rollers, 8, 9, and 10. The belt is stretched taut on the rollers so that it is -driven by its frictional engagement with the driving roller 8. The spacel between the rollers 8 and 9 is made as small as possibleand may be concealed, so that the space between the rollers 9 and 10 will be the operative portion, thereby not presenting the crossed portion of the belt to view.

lhat I'claim and mean to secure by Letters Patent is- In combination with three rollers having anges at their extremities, three hangers, said rollers rotatively secured on said hangers, a motor, said motor directly connected to one of said rollers, an endless belt, said belt crossed between two of said rollers, advertising cards, said cards secured to said belt, the rollers so positioned that the op erative position of said belt will be between two of said rollers when said belt is in a flat or un-crossed position.

In testimony whereof I ailix my signature.

ISHAM S. DICKEN. 

